US EditionFederal Judges Uphold California’s New Congressional Maps
A federal court upheld Prop 50 after voters approved it to counter Texas' GOP maps, aiming to flip five Republican seats in the 2026 U.S. House elections.
- A three-judge federal panel in Los Angeles on Wednesday upheld Proposition 50, rejecting Republicans' constitutional challenge to California congressional maps slated for 2026, 2028 and 2030 use.
- California Democrats crafted Proposition 50 to redraw districts for 2026, 2028 and 2030, targeting five Republican-held seats as a countermeasure to Texas' redistricting after President Donald Trump urged Texas to redraw districts.
- District Judges Josephine Staton and Wesley Hsu sided with Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democrats while Judge Kenneth K. Lee dissented; the California Republican Party filed the suit, joined by the U.S. Department of Justice, with NRCC funding and DCCC backing Newsom.
- With deadlines looming, Republican challengers plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court as California's filing deadline is in March and February is Republicans' last possible wait.
- The decision follows a broader redistricting fight after the United States Supreme Court upheld Texas redistricting and set partisan gerrymandering precedent requiring race-versus-partisanship proof amid national redistricting dynamics.
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Federal Court Upholds California’s Redrawn Maps Favoring Democrats
A three-judge panel on a federal district court on Wednesday rejected a Republican bid to overturn California’s redistricted maps, upholding the results of the Proposition 50 referendum. In a 2–1 decision, the panel in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled that California’s altered maps were lawful, ruling that Republicans’ claims of racial gerrymandering motives in the redistricting did not align with the facts. “…
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Federal court upholds California congressional redistricting
(The Center Square) – California’s congressional redistricting, designed to pick up five more Democratic seats in this year’s midterm elections, was upheld Wednesday in a federal court in downtown Los Angeles.
Federal Court Says Prop 50 Gerrymander Is Good to Go, Cites Supreme Court Ruling on Texas Maps
A baldly hypocritical effort by the Republican Party to challenge Democrats' tit-for-tat gerrymander measure, Prop 50, has been shot down by a federal court, paving the way for California to redraw its congressional district maps as it sees fit.Governor Gavin Newsom was celebrating Wednesday after news came of a federal court ruling on the challenge to Prop 50. The court found that California Democrats' effort at a partisan gerrymander of the st…
California Republicans lose bid to pause Prop 50's new district lines
LOS ANGELES (KESQ) - A three-judge panel in Los Angeles federal court today ruled against California Republicans in their bid to nullify the new congressional map California voters approved in November. In their lawsuit, filed one day after California voters approved Proposition 50, Assemblyman David Tangipa, R-Fresno, the California Republican Party and a group of Republican voters -- joined by the U.S. Department of Justice -- urged judges to …
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